2008

Whether the month of December has to you a religious significance or merely a cultural one, chances are you too are battling against the gloom of winter and early nights with light arrangements, decorations and the usual assortment of seasonal foodstuffs. The wollzelle team is, of course, no exception.

This year, we are proud to introduce the wollzelle Santa, who, unlike his more traditional colleagues, opts for orange dress and winters in Vienna. It started innocently enough with an idea to spruce up our office for the holidays, which gradually turned into an ambitious wall decor project requiring the confection of special stencils and the consumption of many a delicious croissant, as evidenced by our Flickr photo-stream.

As the project grew, so did Santa, and he now adorns a full wall of the office, from top to bottom, casting a gleeful eye over our busy operations. Acute viewers will notice we introduced an element of the third dimension in the mural, in the form of magic tokens springing out of his hat — and out of the wall, onto the tree.

Of course, this is only the first of many outings for our Santa. He has already made an appearance on our holiday cards (front and back) and reliable sources have let it be said he may be back among us with renewed energy in 2009.

In the meantime, we at wollzelle would like to grasp this occasion to thank you all for your continued interest in our work. Your energy and enthusiasm keep us energized, and we are very much looking forwards to spending another year in your company. To you and to yours, a very good month and a great many cheers!

wollzelle is a photo buff’s haven. Over the years, we have had the honour of devising identities for some of the biggest names in photography, design and fashion. fluxiom, our asset manager, is used by countless professionals to build books and portfolios.

Today, we’re revisiting an old favorite, the web site of Peter Rigaud, a Vienna-based photographer with clients around the world and across all major industries.

Whether working on one of his artistic projects, snapping shots for advertisements or framing portraits for personal or editorial use, Peter’s work always marries a strong, precise structure with fluid and unexpected movement.

Peter’s home page originally went live in 2001. Its current design has evolved little since its inception in 2003. As his projects have grown and evolved, however, the time was ripe to add a new Publications section, presenting the many magazines into which his work is featured as well as the books dedicated to his work and career.

If you aren’t familiar with Peter’s art, we encourage it to give it a look. As always, your comments and feedback are very much welcome!

Did you know, however, about our darker side? At night, wollzelle engineers come out of their orange coats and roam neon-lit data centres to manage heavy-duty storage gear, high-speed network links and redundant power supplies.

Of course, we’re not quite the mad rocket scientists! We do, however, have a genuine passion for technology. Why, might you ask? Simply because aesthetics make design attractive, but method makes it work. We at wollzelle aim to excel in both.

From this layered approach was born fluxiom, a novel online file manager that aims to annihilate all clutter through the effective use of the latest technologies in storage, search and sharing. Its technical core is wrapped in pure wollzelle design, making it a snap — and, we hope, a joy — to use.

To celebrate fluxiom’s latest accomplishments, we have recently introduced our first free plan.

If you too feel encumbered by files and dragged down by the demands of asset management, you can give fluxiom a spin, and try its most popular features for as long as you wish, without any financial commitment. Once you feel ready, heavier-duty plans are only a click away.

Of course, we couldn’t let the occasion go by without putting together a little video for you. It presents fluxiom and its unique approach to data management better than words ever could. It also introduces a series of features designed to help you manage your own data more effectively.

The new film from Austrian director Erwin Wagenhofer looks behind the scenes of the colourful backdrop of banks and insurance companies.

The film is shown at this years Viennale and officially premiers on October 31 (the world saving day). It’s bizarre but the current economic situation seems to be the biggest worldwide advertising campaign promoting this movie.

Co-op is nice and refreshing approach to track time based on harvest. A bit of twitter here, a bit of campfire there, and a dash of backpack journal. E voila! Nice work! We use it for a couple of days now and it’s very promising, here is our co-op Fluid icon we just made.

Yesterday Christina and I attended the CLICK Conference in NYC, an annual conference on advertising and digital media. It was an excellent line-up of forward-thinking people in the industry: Michael Lebowitz (Big Spaceship), Tom Ajello (Poke), James Cooper (Another Anomaly), Alex Lieu (42 Entertainment), Sergio Gordilho (Africa Propaganda), Alessandra Lariu (McCann/She Says), and Benjamin Palmer (The Barbarian Group), moderated by Liz Danzico of Happy Cog and the School of Visual Arts.

Here are some of our favorite quotes, thoughts to read/think through and let the mind wander from time to time:

Fat Pig ChocolateBeating Card by the Brooklyn BrothersAmen!“Signing” my first verbal N.D.A. with David WalesBenjamin Palmer: CNN Headline T-ShirtsAlex Lieu: NIN Year Zero Campaign blurs the line between marketing and entertainment

We are looking for an multimedia designer to join our team here in vienna permanently. At wollzelle you will be working across multiple clients and projects, as part of a team of designers and developers. You will create design concepts for print and digital campaigns, screen design, interface design and flash animations.

So you’ll need lots of great ideas and the relevant Mac skills to bring them to life (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash…)

you positivly have:

3 years experience in a multimedia or advertising agency.

You are great with layouts and tremendous with type.

You have an excellent portfolio, showing you are versed in design for print and digital media.

You have experienced a full life-cycle of a digital project numerous times.

The latest issue of the magazine Soziales Netzwerk, which we art direct, features a very nice article about an elderly lady “aunt Nelly” who rearranged her home accommodation by getting rid of all the furniture, hiring an architect and turning it into her own space.

Lately we built a little widget we’d like to share. It allows you to skin a standard multiple selectbox. Here is the demo page you can also download the source via github it’s free. We have more in the drawer and hopefully find time to share those little snippets as well.

We’re looking for a passionate front-end web developer to join our team here in vienna.

Minimum of 3 years experience in the online design world.

Very thorough HTML, CSS and JavaScript knowledge.

You are experienced with JavaScript libraries like prototype, script.aculo.us, mootools.

Additional knowledge of Flash, Flex, Actionscript 3 are not essential, but welcome.

You are continuously fascinated by interactive design and the opportunities it offers.

You care about everything you do creatively and you enjoy being part of a team of creatives and love a good discussion.

An Apple Macintosh computer as your primary development tool.

Languages: German/English.

And last but not least: You like to work hard and you’re nice to people;) This is a permanent full or part time position in Vienna, salary is based on experience. So, if you’re familiar with our work and think you could add to make it better don’t hesitate to send us:

Your CV

A link to your portfolio or at least 3 references of your previous work

The lecture was focused on our approach towards new projects and how we solve interface design issues by showing practical examples. These lecutres and the following questions are always a great source of inspiration. Thanks for the invitation!

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